A 55-kg soccer player jumps vertically upwards and heads the 0.45-kg ball as it is descending vertically with a speed of 24 m/s. (Note that the force of gravity may be ignored during the brief collision time.)
(a) If the player was moving upward with a speed of 4.0 m/s just
before impact, what will be the speed of the ball immediately after
the collision if the ball rebounds vertically upwards and the
collision is elastic?
___ m/s
(b) If the ball is in contact with the player's head for 18 ms,
what is the average acceleration of the ball?
___m/s2
Conserve linear momentum
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